I noticed I was no longer sweating. This concerned me, but I was close enough to the end I figured I could make it.
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To make things worse, I was getting passed by what seemed like hundreds of runners at this point. They were like a river running past me. I thought it was even thousands, but looking back and knowing my final placement,…